The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future. Ray Kurzweil More Quotes by Ray Kurzweil More Quotes From Ray Kurzweil Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light. Ray Kurzweil technological-change light profound Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Ray Kurzweil meaningless too-much ifs Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning. Ray Kurzweil passion learning educational The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear. Ray Kurzweil magic technology profound By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution. Ray Kurzweil next-steps technology thinking When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence. Ray Kurzweil talking-to-someone combination talking Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'. Ray Kurzweil god-exists wells doe Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death. Ray Kurzweil loss people thinking Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge. Ray Kurzweil gateways phones should The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right. Ray Kurzweil fate decision made Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Ray Kurzweil life-and-death too-much giving There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages. Ray Kurzweil village technology fire Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it. Ray Kurzweil creativity people ideas Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. Ray Kurzweil technology unique humanity Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. Ray Kurzweil next evolution dust By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities. Ray Kurzweil technology real personality Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful. Ray Kurzweil engineering skills people A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving. Ray Kurzweil peers patterns successful As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening. Ray Kurzweil sublime awakening light To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend. Ray Kurzweil spiritual mean reality
